Brickell area: Brickell CitiCentre will feature three towers, two blocks north of Mary Brickell Village (pink on map). Two towers will be built on the west side of Miami Avenue (2&3 on map), and one tower will be located on the east. Ranging from 69 to 76 stories, all three towers in this $1.3 billion project would surpass the height of the Four Seasons, becoming Miami's new tallest buildings. The project was approved unanimously by the city's Planning Advisory Board and will be heard by the City Commission in September.

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It doesn't appear that MacLee, the developer proposing Empire World Towers, has submitted complete plans to the city yet. The city's data are still reporting a building on that site that would be 56 stories, 659 ft tall. The information is still kinda sketchy, presumably financing, aviation issues, and other details.

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odd indeed. I wonder if there is a difference in the height of the lobbies, or different floor heights altogether... The 69-floor one would average 11.44-foot ceilings, and 10.63 feet for the 76-floor.

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A lot of the space is office space, which is probably located on the lower floors of just one of the towers. That would account for a difference in floor-to-ceiling ratio, since offices have much higher ceilings.

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The $1.3 billion mixed-use Brickell CitiCentre, 700 and 701 S. Miami Ave., would include three towers with 2,424 residential condos, more thant 200,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 130,000 square feet of offices.

If approved as planned by the Miami City Commission, the project would create some of Miami's tallest buildings. [Developer Kevin Reilly]said recently he expects commissioners to review his request for a major use special permit in September and he plans to start construction within a year.

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Brickell Citi Centre has been approved... three towers 76 (808 ft.), 72, and 69 stories tall. Article says these will become the tallest buildings in the county, but that seems to conflict with the height of the future Met 3, which is slated to climb 866 feet. Perhaps they're counting on this building being completed first and briefly being the tallest.